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Fourth Generation
30. Henry Davenport, b. 11 Nov 1812 in Staines, baptised 10 Jun 1813. He was a surgeon.
He married Jane Whiteley, 7 Oct 1840 in Staines, b. 7 Mar 1814 in the parish of All
Hallows Staining, London, baptised 4 May 1814 in All Hallows Staining (daughter of
George Whiteley and Jane Higgin). In the 1841 and 1851 censuses they were listed in
Eltham, Kent, in 1861 in Stanwell, London, and in 1871 Chertsey, Surrey. Henry died 17
Jun 1877 in Chertsey; letters of administration was issued for him 21 Jul 1877, valuing his
estate at £25,000. Jane died 1Q 1899 in St. Pancras, London.
Children:
42. i Mary Higgin Davenport, b, 3Q 1841 in Eltham, baptised 13 Oct 1841 in
Eltham. She married William Frederick Revell, a clergyman, 26 Apr 1866 in
Chertsey (son of William Revell and Rebecca Cousins). He died 1Q 1911
in Kensington. Mary died 16 Dec 1929 in Paddington; probate was granted
7 Feb 1930, valued at £22,812, with letters of administration granted in
1953. They had two sons and one daughter.
34. John Thistlewood Davenport, b. 5 Oct 1817 in Staines, baptised 16 Dec 1817 in
Staines. He was a pharmacist and manufacturing chemist and founded J. T.
Davenport Ltd of 33 Great Russell St, London. He married (1) Cecilia Hopgood, 29
Aug 1840 in Brentford, London, b. 26 July 1819 in the parish of St Botolph, City of
London, baptised 4 Aug 1819 in St. Botolph's, (daughter of Thomas Burn Hopgood, a
jeweller and silversmith, and Sarah Dorothy Metcalf). A major product of John’s
business was Chlorodyne, a patent medicine used to relieve pain, as a sedative, and
for treating diarrhea. He had purchased the formula, a blend of laudanum (an alcoholic
solution of opium), tincture of cannabis, and chloroform, from a British Army doctor who
developed it in India for treating cholera. John was sometime operative chemist to the
Duke of Cambridge and Vice-President and President of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society. Initially they lived in Bloomsbury in central London; they moved to Hampstead
in the early 1850s. Cecilia died 22 Jan 1858 in Hampstead and was buried in All Souls
Cemetery, Kensal Green.
Children by Cecilia Hopgood:
43. i Cecilia Davenport, b. 18 Apr 1841 in Bloomsbury, baptised 18 June 1841 in
St. George’s, Bloomsbury. She travelled in Egypt and Palestine in 1875
and was listed with her brother John in Lambeth in the 1881 census. In
1891 she was listed in Brighton, Sussex and in 1901 in Bournemouth,
Hampshire. Latterly she lived with John at "Torvane", St Peters Road,
Parkstone, Dorset. She died 12 Jul 1921 in Christchurch, Hampshire;
probate was granted 26 Aug 1921, valued at £17,224.
44. ii John Metcalf Davenport, b. 6 Oct 1842 in Bloomsbury, baptised 11 Jan
1843 in St. George’s, Bloomsbury. He was ordained in 1872 and was of
anglo-catholic persuasion. In 1882 he moved to New Brunswick, Canada.
He is the subject of an entry in The Dictionary of Canadian National
Biography. After his return to England in 1909 he lived with his sister
Cecilia in Parkstone. He died on 10 Mar 1913; probate was granted 26 Jun
1913, valued at £5,811.
45. iii Montague Davenport, b. 9 Apr 1844 in Bloomsbury. He married Amy Mary
Coombs, 15 May 1866 in Lambeth, b. 5 Feb 1844 in Lambeth (daughter of
Joseph Lush Coombs, gentleman, and Amy Sarah Hayward). Though of
independent means, Montague was an architect and surveyor, an
auctioneer, and a stockbroker; latterly he became a JP and County
Alderman. In 1875 he travelled across the USA and Canada publishing an
account of the trip in 1876 entitled Under the Gridiron ((which can be found
on Google Books). In the 1871 census he and Amy were listed in Stoke
Newington, London, in Hornsey in 1881, thereafter they lived in
Twickenham. Amy died 1 Jan 1893 in Brentford, London. Montague died
15 Apr 1906 at home in Twickenham; probate was granted 14 May 1906
valued at £18,575. They were both buried in Teddington Cemetery,
Richmond. They had three daughters and one son,
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